The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine

Edited by Mark Jackson

Description

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine celebrates the richness and variety of medical history around the world. In recent decades, the history of medicine has emerged as a rich and mature sub-discipline within history, but the strength of the field has not precluded vigorous debates about methods, themes, and sources. Bringing together over thirty international scholars, this handbook provides a constructive overview of the current state of these debates, and offers new directions for future scholarship.

There are three sections: the first explores the methodological challenges and historiographical debates generated by working in particular historical ages; the second explores the history of medicine in specific regions of the world and their medical traditions, and includes discussion of the `global history of medicine'; the final section analyses, from broad chronological and geographical perspectives, both established and emerging historical themes and methodological debates in the history of medicine.

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine

Edited by Mark Jackson

Author Information

Mark Jackson was Director of the Centre for Medical History at the University of Exeter between 2000 and 2010. He served as Chair of the Wellcome Trust History of Medicine Funding Committee between 2003 and 2008 and is currently Chair of the Wellcome Trust Research Resources in Medical History Funding Committee. He has taught modules in the history of medicine and the history and philosophy of science for over twenty years. His books include Newborn Child Murder (1996), The Borderland of Imbecility (2000), Infanticide: Historical Perspectives on Child Murder and Concealment 1550-2000, (ed., 2002), Allergy: The History of a Modern Malady (2006), Health and the Modern Home (ed., 2007), and Asthma: The Biography (2009). The Age of Stress: Science and the Search forStability is due to be published by Oxford University Press in 2012.

Contributors:

Virginia Berridge, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Sanjoy Bhattacharya, University of YorkAnne-Emanuelle Birn, University of TorontoRoberta Bivins, University of WarwickTimothy Boon, Chief Curator at the Science MuseumLinda Bryder, University of AucklandHarold J. Cook, Brown UniversityRoger Cooter, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLGayle Davis, University of EdinburghHormoz Ebrahimnejad, University of SouthamptonPhilip van der Eijk, Humboldt UniversityKate Fisher, University of ExeterMartin Gorsky, London School of Hygiene and Tropical MedicineChristopher Hamlin, University of Notre DameMark Harrison, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at the University of OxfordRhodri Hayward, Queen Mary, University of LondonPeregrine Horden, Royal Holloway, University of LondonMark Jackson, University of ExeterRob Kirk, University of ManchesterAlysa Levene, Oxford Brookes UniversityVivienne Lo, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, UCLAndreas-Holger Maehle, Durham UniversityHilary Marland, University of WarwickGraham Mooney, Johns Hopkins UniversityStaffan Müller-Wille, University of ExeterSusannah Ottaway, Carleton CollegeEdmund Ramsden, University of ExeterThomas Rütten, Northern Centre for the History of MedicineLyn SchumakerChristopher Sellers, Stony Brook UniversityE. C. Spary, Corpus Christi College, University of CambridgeMichael Stanley-Baker, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College LondonJulie-Marie Strange, University of ManchesterCarsten Timmermann, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at the University of ManchesterMarius Turda, Oxford Brookes UniversityMichael Worboys, University of Manchester

'Essential Purchase' on Doody's Core Titles List 2018

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine

Edited by Mark Jackson

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Featured as an 'Essential Purchase' on Doody's Core Titles List for 2018

"The Handbook will prove valuable for many readers, serving to enlighten both those new to the field and those who have been writing and teaching medical history for some time. Advanced undergraduate or graduate students studying medical history who want a concise introduction to a specfic topic will find this an excellent place to start, including both a critical analysis of the literature and the useful suggestions for further reading."--Bulletin of the History of Medicine